Luttrell, Henry

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8.10.1795 see Luttrel at theatre / 9.10.1795 adv at miss Mansel's / 28.10.1795 at Montagu's / 15.4.1796 again / 19.10.1799 at Reynolds's / 16.5.1828 again / 17.7.1829 Thomson Luttrel at Reynolds's

Henry Luttrell DNB 1768-1851. Farington diary Jan 1796 dined at Malone's with Luttrell & Jephson and found them "democratish". Clearly Luttrell saw miss Mansel in her debut in Road to Ruin and went to congratulate her the next day, keeping her acquaintance both shortly after her marriage and long after.The idea that his mother was a gardener's daughter from Woodstock is a confusion of the writers of the DNB. The Memoirs of Miss Arrabella Bolton 1770 (perhaps written by Cuthbert Shaw DNB 1738/9-1771) make it clear that the only child of Luttrell's father (Henry Lawes Luttrell DNB 1737-1821) to be born from his seduction (allegedly opium date rape) of the gardener's daughter (from Tackley, near Woodstock) was a girl who died aged 13 months. The early part of the memoirs is well documented thanks to the efforts of Dr John Kelly Professor of Medicine at Oxford, to retrieve his fee and clear his name; the baptism of the girl can be found in the parish registers of St Ebbe's Oxford 15.12.1756 Aprobello Kathrine illegit d Arrobello Bouden born St Mary the Virgin. Her burial was probably registered under a false name if at all. Luttrell's father was linked with 6 other amours in Town & Country Magazine Jan 1771, he also married Elizabeth Mullen a minor without parental consent in America in 1759 and had by her a daughter Harriet who married James Rogers and died 2.1.1819. Luttrell had a sister Frances Maria King who married Thomas Scott at St Marylebone 14.2.1789 and their mother was known by 1804 (will PCC of Edmund Nugent) as Mary Otto Baijer Nugent. I have much more on this but am still researching.

Amendments to Oxford DNB

LUTTRELL HENRY 1768-1851
CURRENT TEXT "born on 14 May 1768. His mother was rumoured to be a gardener's daughter from Woodstock named Harman;"
SUGGESTED TEXT <born on 14 May 1768 and baptised Henry Luttrell at St Martin in the Fields on 7 June 1768. His mother was later known as Mary Otto Baijer Nugent, though she may have used the name Mary King at the time he was born;>
NOTES The Harman rumour was probably a confusion with Arabella daughter of James Bolton gardener to John Moreton of Tackley (near Woodstock) by whom Henry Lawes Luttrell had an illegitimate daughter born in October 1756 who died aged 13 months (see The Memoirs of Miss Arabella Bolton 1770, a book which, although part of the pro-Wilkes campaign against Luttrell, is scrupulously correct in names and dates which can be checked in parish registers, &c, at least in the first part of the story). Henry Luttrell's mother was known by 1804 (in the will PCC 1804 of Edmund Nugent, Luttrell's half-brother) as Mary Otto Baijer Nugent. She had also had a daughter by Henry Lawes Luttrell baptised Frances Maria Luttrell but named Frances Maria King when she married Thomas Scott at St Marylebone 14.2.1789 where Henry King (presumably the later Henry Luttrell) and Nicholas Nugent were witnesses. Freeman's Journal 13.6.1843 noted under DEATHS "At Cheltenham. aged 75 years, Thomas Scott, Esq. He was cousin to the first Earl of Clonmel, and was married to a daughter of the Earl of Carhampton, who survives him". Thomas Scott's will PCC 1843 mentioned his brother-in-law Henry Luttrell of Brompton Square, Middlesex. Frances Maria Scott died 5.9.1845 and her gravestone at Holy Trinity Church Cheltenham gave her date of birth as 5.11.1770. The mother of Henry and Frances Maria was perhaps called Mary Otto Baijer King and then married Nugent or took his name and had three sons, Edmund, George & Nicholas. I don't know what connection there was between her and the Otto Baijer family. The baptism records of Frances Maria dau of Henry Luttrell & Mary at St Marylebone on 11.11.1770 giving birth date as 5.11.1770 and of Henry son of Henry Luttrell & Mary at St Martin in the Fields on 7.6.1768 confirm the above. And see Luttrell, Henry Lawes

Jan 2015 the DNB has adopted a shortened version of my suggested change, and credited my website in the Sources